PMC International (PMCI) is a free full-text archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature. PMCI is a collaborative effort between the U.S. National Institutes of Health and the National Library of Medicine, the publishers whose journal content makes up the PMC archive, and organizations in other countries that share NIH's and NLM's interest in archiving life sciences literature.

Prefix
pmc
Alternative Prefixes
PMC PMCID
Keywords
bibliography biomedical science earth science environmental science epidemiology life science virology
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Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers

Local identifiers in PubMed Central should match this regular expression:
^PMC\d+$

Example Local Unique Identifier
PMC3084216   Resolve
Pattern for CURIES

Compact URIs (CURIEs) constructed from PubMed Central should match this regular expression:
^pmc:PMC\d+$

Example CURIE
pmc:PMC3084216
Publications
Metaregistry PubMed Central

The metaregistry provides mappings between the Bioregistry and other registries. There are 7 mappings to external registries for pmc with 4 unique external prefixes.

Registry Name Registry Metaprefix External Prefix Curate
BioContext biocontext PMCID
FAIRSharing FAIRSharing logo fairsharing FAIRsharing.wpt5mp
GO Gene Ontology Registry logo go PMCID
Identifiers.org Identifiers.org logo miriam pmc
N2T Name-to-Thing logo n2t pmc
Prefix Commons Prefix Commons logo prefixcommons pmc
Wikidata Wikidata Property logo wikidata P932
Providers

Providers are various services that resolve CURIEs to URLs. The example CURIE pmc:PMC3084216 is used to demonstrate the provides available for pmc. Generation of OLS and BioPortal URLs requires additional programmatic logic beyond string formatting.

Name Metaprefix URI
PubMed Central pmc http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3084216
Bioregistry bioregistry https://bioregistry.io/pmc:PMC3084216
Identifiers.org miriam https://identifiers.org/pmc:PMC3084216
Name-to-Thing n2t https://n2t.net/pmc:PMC3084216
National Center for Biotechnology Information Registry ncbi https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3084216/?tool=pubmed
Extra Providers

Additional providers curated in the Bioregistry are listed here.

Code Name URL
ncbi PubMed Central https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3084216/?tool=pubmed